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5 March, 2016 US will sell eight nuclear-capable F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan. (File Photo) Washington:  A top Republican Senator has asked his colleagues in the Senate to join him in opposing the sale of eight nuclear-capable F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan, saying it was “past time” to demand accountability from the country whose “coziness” with terrorists has harmed the ...

2 March, 2016 The earthquake hit off the west coast of Sumatra A 7.9 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Indonesia, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). The country has issued a tsunami warning, the National Meteorolgical Agency reported.   The shallow quake, which hit southwest of the island of Sumatra on Wednesday, had a depth of ...

US warplanes have carried out attacks on militants from the so-called Islamic State (IS) in Libya, killing at least 30 people. The strikes hit an IS training camp and “likely” killed a senior Tunisian extremist leader, US officials said. Noureddine Chouchane is linked to two attacks in Tunisia last year, including an attack that killed 30 Britons. The IS group ...

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Shairf is likely to meet his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi in Washington next month on the sidelines of a nuclear summit hosted by US President Barack Obama, a media report said on Friday. Sharif and Modi have both accepted President Obama’s invitation to attend a nuclear summit he is hosting in Washington on March 31 and ...

The legislation hits North Korea with more stringent sanctions over its nuclear weapons programme President Obama has signed off new expanded sanctions on North Korea over its nuclear programme, weeks after it launched a long-range rocket.   The country has refused to stop its nuclear programme and the bill was easily passed last week by Congress.   The sanctions attempt ...

The number of people killed when a bus crashed into a truck in northern Ghana has risen to 71, medical officials say. The Metro Mass Transit coach reportedly collided head-on with a cargo truck carrying tomatoes near the town of Kintampo on Wednesday evening. Regional police chief Maxwell Atingane told Reuters news agency that many passengers died at the scene. ...

The wreckage of a South Korean army’s helicopter in Chuncheon, South Korea.  A South Korean military helicopter crashed in an eastern province today, killing three of the four soldiers on board, officials said. The helicopter went down in a farming field in the city of Chuncheon in the eastern province of Gangwon during a checkout flight, defense and army officials ...

The Paris terror attacks in November that killed 130 people were an intelligence failure, America’s top spymaster has said, warning that the ISIS is planning an attack on the US. “Paris was a failure of intelligence. All but one of the eight terrorists were French citizens, trained by ISIS in Syria. They returned, unnoticed, and attacked six locations killing 130 ...

A cliff near New Zealand city of Christchurch collapsed on Sunday after a 5.7-magnitude quake struck the South Island city. The New Zealand government’s GeoNet monitoring service said the moderate quake was centred 15 km east of the city at a depth of 15 km, Xinhua reported. The US Geological Survey put the magnitude of the temblor at 5.8 with ...

 The Saudi-led coalition fighting Shiite rebels in Yemen says the kingdom has shot down a Scud missile fired from Yemen. The coalition said in a statement carried today by the official Saudi Press Agency said Saudi air defenses intercepted the missile as it headed toward the southwestern city of Khamis Mushait. The statement says the missile was completed destroyed without ...